This material can be an original idea, a script, a book, or an article from a newspaper or a magazine - any source constitutes 'material.' In the project development stage, explored in Chapter 3, the producer: Over the stages of production it is developed, fleshed out, and possibly, produced.
Your idea can be a full-length script or a one-paragraph treatment that exists in some format. Stage One: The Idea (Project Development) In this book, there are chapters that encompass each of these five stages of producing for television or video.ġ. Stage five: Next steps (wrap-up and distribution).Stage four: The final product (post-production).Stage one: The idea (project development).